Theatre Royal is a 1943 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Lydia Sherwood.
A London theatre is threatened with closure, but its staff fight to raise funds and secure the support of an important backer.
They find a rich old American, Clement J. Earle, and try to get money out of him, but also trick him buying antique furniture in an old country house.
Flanagan dreams they are Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh meeting Queen Elizabeth I.
He latterly became a proponent of modern jazz drumming in the UK and US, appearing with Ronnie Scott and Miles Davis, amongst others.